Posted on 02/09/2005 8:14:53 AM PST by areafiftyone
The U.S. military is to beam its own news coverage to millions of Americans.
Moving on from its phase of embedding journalists, or as some would say, 'a policy of restricting and contolling the flow of information,' the Pentagon will now produce and disseminate the news itself. It will be beamed to the public at no charge. The service will emanate from what is known as the Pentagon Channel, an internal public relations television unit within the Department of Defense. It was set up nine months ago.
The government-run TV service will be channeled to the public through EchoStar Communication's Dish Network which will offer the Pentagon Channel to its more than 11 million viewers on a no-cost basis. Programming will appear on the network's public interest channels and will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Dish viewers will be kept up to date with current military news and information including Department of Defense news briefings, military news, interviews with top defense officials, and short stories about the work of military people.
'We appreciate Dish Network's decision to carry the new Pentagon Channel on their satellite TV system,' said Defense Department spokesman Larry Di Rita. 'Their support helps us fulfill our mission of providing timely military news and information.'
Can't wait to check it out.
Oh great, a propaganda channel!
What's the difference between this and NPR?
Exactly! I was just thinking that! The debate is going to be great and perhaps this will be the end of both NPR AND PBS! Both of which are liberal propaganda machines, well when you consider all things.
They should have gone with DirecTV, which I have, because Rupert Murdoch of Fox News fame, owns it....
Oh, well, those of you who will get to see it, let us know how it is and what it on it, ok?
This is such good news. And the libs better just shut their traps--we've put up with "Link" and other liberal/gay channels for years. Some of the "public interest" channels, in fact, should be in the "adult" section--once stumbled on a lesbian "talk show" on I think "Link" and I was stunned at how specific they got. Ug.
I have cable so I guess I won't be seeing it.
When the gun is put to your head forcing you to watch, that would be a problem. Though until then....
Besides, with Link, Free Speech TV, PBS, and others on the "public interest" free section, there's plenty of propaganda already--and if that fails, there's the networks. This channel can perhaps balance things out a little.
The big difference back then was that most of the big media was on America's side at the time.
It looks like FOX News has finally got some competition.
I think they should have military teams play paint ball against liberal teams.
I hope we are able to get it on DirectTV.
DirectTV has a Military channel, but don't believe its from the Pentagon.
no, put they are putting a gun to your head and forcing you to pay for it
the Military channel use to be know as Discovery Times, thats NYTimes, good programming though
We'll see if they report events honestly enough to garner any credibility. Frankly, I'm not too optimistic...
Mmmm I not quite sure because the Discovery Times is a separate channel on Direct TV.
Military channel says (MILT) in the upper ledger.
I agreed programming in Discovery Times is good also.
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